Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1926, Page 11

Er—ees HUGE SUM ASKED OF U. 5. BY INDIANS Claims Totaling $411,957,- 632 Already Filed, With Like Amount to Be Filed. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Behind the Budget Bureau's request for a supplemental appropriation of submitted to Congress, wy of the most colossal ever flled against Uncle ards. A dozen or biil previous Co and are now on the threshold of formal prosecution in the Court of The United States must d 1 or they will hecome collectible by default. In or- der to examine the Government’s re- sponsibility, it will be necessary for John H. MecCar controller general, to conduct investigations running in . s the claims themselves the year 1800. rl's office to do so, r of the budget, has ss to supply funds and clerical help. Alto- gether, Gen. Lord estimates, it will cost the ry $200,000 to defend the Indian claims. List of Pending Claims. The list of claims now before the general accounting office for certifica- follows ack petitioned Cong for extra I Amount. band of Santa Frow l'nGNI B on ’\'I:_m.uhr 2 and afihated Dands 1 aw tribe..... ... 8 Total ...... $411,05 b4 These claims, aggregating in the heighborhood of haif a billion dollars by means exhaust the bills which ed-skinned wards have tendered um for payment. There are, indeed, elght more ‘jurisdictional $ills” which have passed Congress, no ) of which has yet been filed fore the Court of Claims. Total Nearly Billion. The total of these additional bills 38 about $400,000,000, so that the red jnen are after something approxi- tnating a billion from their more or Jess solicitous guardian. Some author- jties don’t quite see the reasonable. s of a “ward” suing his “guar. But the finance officers of the Government—men like Gen. Lord, in particular—feel that the Indians are entitled to their day in court. That is why the controller general will be directed to make the fairest and austive survey possible of claims. I, the claims rest upon suid to be due this or that from the United States *“under es, agreements or laws or for appropriation of any of the £ given bands or tribes. A any of the clalms are pretty ' and few err on the side of underestimation of funds said to be due for various causes. Many of the claims seek to a: s Uncle Sam for sins of omission. For example, tribes. men who were assigned certain “edu- cational rights,” which they contend were never granted them in fact, have put in bills for *schools that were not built.” A large slice of the biggest Indian claim, that of the Stoux tribe, gating $221,945,139, is made up of “unbuilt school” items. Another favorite claim is the land taken from the Indlans for gevern. mental purposes and then not devoted, Yellowstone Park This Year Why? It’s Different— Ask Boy Under Engine After Wreck of Auto, Uninjured Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., April 13— —Struck by a passenger train at Brunswick Sunday night anautomo- blle containing Edward Lewls, Mrs. Tessie Dubelle, Mrs. Ruth Kidwiler and Charles Kidwiler, the latter 4 years old, was torn to pleces, and Lewls and Mrs. Dubelle were serfously injured. As Mrs. Kidwiler pulled herself out of the wreckage and cried, “Where is my little boy?”, the child crawled out from under the engine and replied, “Here I am.” Nelther mother nor child was hurt. The auto was on the way to the traln, which Mrs. Dubelle, mother of Mrs. Kidwiler, was to have General Af""- - Round Trip Booksortripslam g interestodin (V) from Waskiokton O Yellowstone Park . .$103.80 O Rocky Mrs.(Helens-Butte) 106,40 O Inland Empire (Spokane) 129.50 ific Northwest arl (= (Skagway) . . 234.75 ns o aresions ™ “‘Route of the North Coast Limited” The Travel Triumph T Acks Whatls | | Your lower bowel or colon is full | nous microbes—permanent g virulent polsons | a »sorbed by the intestines, get into the blood am and contami- time will lead to | more serious disorders. t Intestinul Toxemia | and others self-poisoning, but what- | ever you it, don't make the | mistake of treating it too | It is usually caused by {and no one who has it is as active | mentaily and physically | should be. The skin is not as clear ould be and, the eyes have t healthy sparkle. combat autointoxication and rid of the virulent, pernicious, | 1us microbes which infest | colon, cut out meat for a while |and eat plenty of green vegetables | and ripe fruit. boarded. as the clalmants aver, to the exact purpose for which the property was relinquished. sort {8 comprehended by a bill passed in Congress for the benefit o i which wanted a certain buffe put between them and another t which was considered hostile. arrangement was, it seems, that Me. nominee Indians were to be establishe¢ on the buffer territory in question. Instead of that, the government put in a band of Araphoes, who were not considered friendly enough. The re. sult was a claim for the vaiue of tl T The, land thus improperly utilized—and a big claim, “Jurisdictional bllls"—i.e., acts of Congress enabling Indlans to sue in v the Court of Claims—are common in Congress. 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